Need Help W/BuddyPress+Facebook Website (Creative Input needed, TIA!)

Recently installed it to my website (facebookstatus.org) that gets a lot of hits (10k unique/day).

I think BuddyPress is really great and I’m very excited to get everyone on my website involved however, I haven’t been able to properly utilize it yet.

Ideally I’d like to create a “Post your own status area” where people can post their own funny facebook status updates and other people can see them, vote on them, and even post them to their own facebooks.

The problem is the only feature I see being capable of this is the forums and even that is lacking some things.

I was wondering if anyone had any ideas of me or could point me in the direction of a very capable and affordable programmer (I do this for fun, don’t really make any money on it).